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2022 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the 22nd season of D1 Grand Prix started from April 24 on Fuji Speedway and ended on November 6 on Ebisu Circuit.[1]

Naoki Nakamura entered the season as the Defending Champion.[2]

Masashi Yokoi won his third championship with Masato Kawabata winning the Tanso (Solo Run) championship.

Regulation Changes

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In an attempt to reduce grip from specialised tires, D1GP now mandates the UN/ECE R117-02 international standard for wet performance, noise and rolling resistance.[3] The grip reduction is implemented in order to decrease damaged cause by tires to the road surfaces and also to increase tire choices. The tires that will be used will undergo an inspection before being able to be use in competition. This rule change caused Linglong and Sailun to withdraw from the series because of an inability to provide tires with such specification.

Following dispute over a pit time limit in Autopolis, the time given to service a vehicle between rounds is limited to three minutes. An official will be observing the clock as the cars are being serviced.

Schedule

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Round Venue Date Winner Report
Single-Run Follow-up
1 Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka Prefecture April 23 Hideyuki Fujino Masato Kawabata [4]
April 24
2 Okuibuki Motorpark, Shiga Prefecture June 11 Kojiro Mekuwa Naoki Nakamura [5]
3 June 12 Naoki Nakamura Naoki Nakamura [6]
4 Ebisu Circuit (West Course), Fukushima Prefecture August 20 Masashi Yokoi Kojiro Mekuwa [7]
5 August 21 Hokuto Matsuyama Hokuto Matsuyama [8]
6 Autopolis, Ōita Prefecture October 22 Koudai Sobagiri Masashi Yokoi [9]
7 October 23 Koudai Sobagiri Masato Kawabata [10]
8 Ebisu Circuit (Bank Course), Fukushima Prefecture November 12 Daigo Saito Masao Suenaga [11]
9 November 13 Koudai Sobagiri Masao Suenaga [12]

Changes

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  • Fuji Speedway return to the calendar after last held D1GP event in 2016.The competition will be held alongside Motor Fan Festa with the Qualifying and Top 16 held on Saturday and Top 8 onwards held the following day.
  • The Ebisu event will now be held on the West Course, which previously used in 2020. The former South Course has been converted to rally style gravel and not suitable for drifting.
  • Ebisu Circuit will also host the last two rounds of the season with a newly finished banked corner on its West Course, making it the third different layout in the Ebisu Circuit complex.
  • Okuibuki Motorpark will only hold two rounds as supposed to the four of the previous season.

Drivers and Teams

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Entry list as of round 8 and 9

Team No. Driver Machine Tires Round
TMAR x TEAM 紫 99 Japan Naoki Nakamura Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 1
Nissan Silvia (S13) 2-9
TEAM 紫 TOPTUL x VALINO TIRES 98 Japan Hiroki Vito Nissan Silvia (S13) All
DMAX RACING TEAM 70 Japan Masashi Yokoi Nissan Silvia (S15) Nankang All
46 Japan Masao Suenaga Nissan Silvia (S15) All
Team ORANGE 57 Japan Kanta Yanaguida Nissan Silvia (S15) Yokohama 4-5
TMAR 87 Japan Daigo Saito Toyota GR Supra Yokohama 2-9
77 Japan Hokuto Matsuyama Toyota GR Supra Toyo Tires 2-9
Freem TEAM G-meister 16 Japan Koji Yamaguchi Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino All
79 Japan Kojiro Mekuwa Nissan 180SX (RPS13) All
TEAM RE雨宮 K & N 7 Japan Yukio Matsui Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) Toyo Tires All
TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT 66 Japan Hideyuki Fujino Toyota GR86 Toyo Tires All
88 Japan Masato Kawabata Toyota GR86 All
VITOUR RACING SEIMI STYLE DRIFT 2 Japan Seimi Tanaka Nissan Silvia (S15) Vitour All
TMAR x TEAM VERTEX 78 Japan Takahiro Ueno Lexus RC Yokohama All
TEAM MORI 52 Japan Yusuke Kitaoka Toyota Mark II (JZX100) Vitour All
Yokohama TOYOPET X 俺だっ!レーシング 90 Japan Tsuyoshi Tezuka Toyota GR Supra Yokohama 8-9
SHIBATA RACING TEAM SHIBATIRE 31 Japan Koudai Sobagiri Infiniti Q60 Shibatire All
84 Japan Masakazu Hasi Nissan Silvia (S15) All
VALINO 15 Japan Katsuhiro Ueo Nissan 180SX (RPS13) Valino All
Team CM Feeling. 23 Japan Mitsuru Murakami Nissan Silvia (S15) Toyo Tires 1-5
Shibatire 6-7
RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN 43 Japan Yoshifumi Tadokoro Toyota AE86 Habilead All
51 Japan Teruyoshi Iwai Mazda RX-7 (FC3S) Federal All
OKUTONE FP IWANACENTER 27 Japan Takeshi Mogi Nissan Silvia (S15) Shibatire All
VITOUR Racing GP SPORTS 56 Japan Takahiro Mori Nissan 180SX (RPS13) Vitour All
DSL.com 33 Japan Shigehisa Sasayama Toyota Chaser (JZX100) Valino 8-9
SPAN Racing 9 Japan Wataru Yamamoto Toyota GR Supra Shibatire 4-5
TEAM TNR 30 Japan Tetsuro Nakata Toyota Mark II (JZX100) Tri-Ace 1,8-9
Mercury 車楽人 VALINO 38 Japan Sayaka Shimoda Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino 1-3,6-7
OS GIKEN SUNOCO 48 Japan Tomoyuki Kitashiba Toyota GT86 (ZN6) Shibatire 1
Team miyaseimitsu 55 Japan Hisashi Saito Nissan Silvia (S15) Vitour 1
Team BOOSTAR VALINO 69 Japan Ryusei Akiba Nissan Silvia (S15) Valino All
HIRANO TIRE Auto Garage KATAOKA 93 Japan Kazuyuki Masuda Nissan Silvia (S15) Goodride 1-5
CAR GUY Racing 97 Japan Shinichiro Saito Toyota GR Supra Goodride 1-3,8--9
BC Racing 91 Taiwan Tai Xiao-Hsang Nissan Silvia (S15) Toyo Tires 2-3

Changes

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  • Linglong Tire and Sailun Tires withdraw as tyre supplier for this season as they could not comply with the 2022 tyre regulation. As of results Team Orange who have Linglong as title sponsor compete full time in Formula Drift Japan instead, but later Kanta Yanaguida who acquired D1GP license by winning twice in D1 Lights the previous year will compete for the team with Yokohama tires, Akinori Utsumi would not compete in D1GP for the first time since 2001, Kazumi Takahashi will only compete in Formula Drift Japan following Sailun withdrawal while Seimi Tanaka and Yusuke Kitaoka changes tyre maker to Vitour.
  • Shibata Racing changes tyre maker to their own in-house built tire Shibatire working together with Rydanz with Masakazu Hashi joining the team as second driver.
  • Yokohama return as tyre supplier for Daigo Saito and Takahiro Ueno after last supplying tires in 2016 season.
    • Despite using Yokohama during Exhibition event in 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon Masashi Yokoi and DMAX remain using Nankang but no longer became team's title sponsor
  • Sayaka Shimoda joined the competition and became the first female driver to compete in D1GP since Michie Mimoto in 2015
  • Hiroki Vito graduate to D1GP after winning D1 Lights the previous year
  • Teruyoshi Iwai changes tyre supplier from Vitour to Federal.
  • Tetsura Nakata return to D1GP after missing the whole 2021 season.
  • Fat Five Racing became Trail Motor Apex Racing and at same time collaborating with Team Vertex and Naoki Nakamura but due to schedule clash with Formula Drift Japan they missed the first round.
  • Naoki Nakamura's S13 V8 Silvia had an engine issue during the opening round, and used his previous car, an S15 Silvia for that roundround.
    Masato Kawabata newly build GR86
    Team Toyo Tires will debut the new Toyota GR86 build by Wisteria and will be driven by Masato Kawabata and Hideyuki Fujino.
  • Katsuhiro Ueo replace S15 Silvia to 180SX which he use in Formula Drift Japan the previous year.
  • Tai Xiao-Hsang became the first non-Japanese driver to compete in series since Charles Ng and Daychapon Toyingcharoen in 2019
  • Yokohama TOYOPET X 俺だっ!レーシング will only compete in final two round of the season with Tsuyoshi Tezuka returning since last competing in 2017 and will use Yokohama tyres.[13]
  • Mitsuru Murakami misses the final two round of the season to focus on next year of the competition.

Ranking

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Overall Drivers' Ranking

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Rank. Driver Fuji Okuibuki Ebisu Autopolis Ebisu Total.
RD.1 RD.2 RD.3 RD.4 RD.5 RD.6 RD.7 RD.8 RD.9
1 Masashi Yokoi 21 15 21 22 11 28 0　 16 16* 150
2 Masato Kawabata 26 10 15 9 19 7 28 10 15 139
3 Naoki Nakamura 0 25 29 24 0† 11　 16　 16 16* 137
4 Masao Suenaga 16 19 16 11 0 0 10 25 18* 115
5 Yusuke Kitaoka 11 4 21 5 6 20 19 13 10 109
6 Hideyuki Fujino 22 5 1 12 12　 10 8 21 6 107
7 Koudai Sobagiri 7 10 5 6 3 25 25 7 17 105
8 Hokuto Matsuyama 0 16 6 18 29 0 11 5 8 93
9 Kojiro Mekuwa 1 17 12 25 7 0 6 6 7 81
10 Daigo Saito 0 0 0 7 11 5 12 22 12 69
11 Hiroki Vito 12 7 0 0 0 13 4 4 16* 56
12 Katsuhiro Ueo 15 21 0 1 10 3 2 0 0 52
13 Seimi Tanaka 6 6 7 0 13 1 7 2 5 47
14 Ryusei Akiba 0 0 4 10 5 12 15 0 0 46
15 Yukio Matsui 0 11 2 0 2　 17 5 0 0 37
16 Teruyoshi Iwai 11 0 0 13 4 2 0 0 2 32
17 Sayaka Shimoda 0 0 10 - - 4 0 11 0 25
18 Kanta Yanaguida - - - 4 16 - - - - 20
19 Tsuyoshi Tezuka - - - - - - - 10 3 13
20 Takahiro Mori 5 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 12
21 Takahiro Ueno 0 0 0 0 0 8 3 1 0 12
22 Mitsuru Murakami 0 3 3 0 0 6 0 - - 12
13 Tetsuro Nakata 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11
24 Kazuyuki Masuda 0 0 9 0 0 - - - - 9
25 Takeshi Mogi 3 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 7
26 Shinichiro Saito 4 - - - - - - 0 0 4
27 Kouji Yamaguchi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
28 Wataru Yamamoto - - 0 2 0 - - - - 2
29 Masakazu Hashi 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
30 Yoshifumi Tadokoro 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Note :

† : Naoki Nakamura gets second place but according to the regulation due to his rear tire debeaded he did not awarded any point

* : Due to debris flying and injured one of the spectator the event were not continued and as per regulation the Top 4 were given the same point (excluding Tanso point) and the winner is given to the highest quailifier[14]

Solo Run Ranking

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Rank. Driver RD.1 RD.2 RD.3 RD.4 RD.5 RD.6 RD.7 RD.8 RD.9 Total
1 Masato Kawabata 14 12 15 14 14 11 16 15 16 127
2 Sobagiri Kodai 8 15 7 11 4 20 20 12 20 117
3 Masashi Yokoi 12 16 12 20 16 16 0 16 8 116
4 Yusuke Kitaoka 16 5 16 8 8 15 14 14 12 108
5 Hideyuki Fujino 20 6 8 7 11 5 13 13 10 93
6 Kojiro Mekuwa 1 20 11 13 13 0 7 10 11 86
7 Hokuto Matsuyama - 7 10 15 20 0 8 7 13 80
8 Naoki Nakamura 0 8 20 16 0 7 12 11 5 79
9 Daigo Saito - 0 0 12 10 6 11 20 14 73
10 Seimi Tanaka 7 10 13 0 12 1 10 2 6 61
11 Masao Suenaga 11 14 5 6 0 0 5 3 15 59
12 Hiroki Vito 13 11 0 0 0 12 4 5 7 52
13 Ryusei Akiba 0 0 6 4 7 10 15 0 0 42
14 Yukio Matsui 0 13 2 0 3 14 6 0 0 38
15 Teruyoshi Iwai 10 0 0 10 6 2 0 0 2 30
16 Katsuhiro Ueo 15 3 0 1 5 3 2 0 0 29
17 Takahiro Ueno 0 0 0 0 0 13 3 1 0 17
18 Sayaka Shimoda 0 0 4 - - 4 0 8 0 16
19 Mitsuru Murakami 0 4 3 0 0 8 0 - - 15
20 Kazuyuki Masuda 0 0 14 - - - - - - 14
21 Takahiro Mori 6 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 13
22 Tsuyoshi Tezuka - - - - - - - 6 3 9
23 Takeshi Mogi 4 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 8
24 Yanagikuida Kanta - - - 5 2 - - - - 7
25 Shinichiro Saito 5 - - - - - - 0 0 5
26 Koji Yamaguchi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4
27 Tetsuro Nakata 2 - - - - - - 0 1 3
28 Yoshifumi Tadokoro 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
29 Wataru Yamamoto - - - 2 0 - - - - 2
10 Masakazu Hashi 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Teams' Ranking

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Rank. team RD.1 RD.2 RD.3 RD.4 RD.5 RD.6 RD.7 RD.8 RD.9 Total
1 D-MAX RACING TEAM 20 15 20 15 3 26 6 26 Ten 141
2 TEAM TOYO TIRES DRIFT 26 6 6 6 15 6 26 20 6 117
3 TMAR × TEAM紫 0 26 26 20 0 6 10 10 10 108
4 TMAR - 10 3 10 26 3 6 15 6 79
5 TEAM MORI 3 3 15 3 3 15 15 6 6 69
6 SHIBATA RACING TEAM SHIBATIRE 3 3 3 3 3 20 20 3 6 64
7 Freem TEAM G-meister 3 6 6 26 3 0 3 3 3 53
8 VALINO 6 20 0 3 6 3 3 0 0 41
9 TEAM 紫 TOPTUL × VALINO TIRE 6 3 0 - - 6 3 3 10 31
Ten VITOUR RACING SEIMI STYLE DRIFT 3 3 3 0 6 3 3 3 3 27
11 TEAM RE 雨宮 K&N 0 6 3 0 3 10 3 0 0 25
12 Team BOOSTAR VALINO 0 0 3 6 3 6 6 0 0 24
13 RS WATANABE SPEED MASTER BUY NOW JAPAN 6 0 0 6 3 3 0 0 3 21
14 Mercury 車楽人 Valino 0 0 6 - - 3 0 6 0 15
15 Team ORANGE - - - 3 10 - - - - 13
16 VITOUR Racing GP SPORTS 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 12
17 Yokohama Toyopet x 俺だっ！レーシング - - - - - - - 6 3 9
18 TEAM TNR 6 - - - - - - - 3 9
19 TMAR × TEAM VERTEX 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 0 9
20 Team CM Feeling. 0 3 3 - - 3 0 0 0 9
21 OKUTONE FP IWANA CENTER 3 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 9
22 SPAN Racing - - - 3 0 - - - - 3
23 HIRANO TIRE Auto Garage KATAOKA 0 0 3 0 - - - - - 3
24 CAR GUY Racing 3 - - - - - - 0 0 3

Points System

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Overall Standings
Positions 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th
Drivers Point 25 21 18 16 13 12 11 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Team Point 26 20 15 10 6 6 6 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Tanso Points 4 3 2 1
Tanso Standings
Point 20 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Note :

† : Naoki Nakamura gets second place but according to the regulation due to his rear tire debeaded he did not awarded any point

* : Due to debris flying and injured one of the spectator the event were not continued and as per regulation the Top 4 were given the same point (excluding Tanso point) and the winner is given to the highest quailifier

References

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  1. ^ "2022年度暫定スケジュール". d1gp.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  2. ^ "2021年D1グランプリシリーズランキング". d1gp.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  3. ^ "2022 D1GP Tire Regulation change (In Japanese)" (PDF).
  4. ^ "D1GP RD.1 富士 詳細レポート" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  5. ^ "D1GP RD.2 奥伊吹 結果速報" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  6. ^ "D1GP RD.3 奥伊吹 詳細レポート" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  7. ^ "D1GP RD.4 エビス 結果速報" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  8. ^ "D1GP RD.5 エビス 結果速報" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  9. ^ "D1GP RD.6 AP 詳細レポート" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  10. ^ "D1GP RD.7 AP 詳細レポート" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  11. ^ "D1GP RD.8 エビス 詳細レポート" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  12. ^ "D1GP RD.9 エビス 詳細レポート" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  13. ^ "エヴァンゲリオンレーシングがドライバーを発表！" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  14. ^ "D1GP RD.9 エビス 大会途中終了につきまして" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-16.
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